Despite impunity from shipowners and a lack of cooperation from Iranian and Syrian flag states, the ITF and our affiliates have secured the repatriation home of seafarers in two separate cases of abandonment in the Arab World and Iran.
The ITF has established its latest Contacts Network, covering Bangladesh, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Thailand. In recent years, the ITF has seen a significant increase in seafarers requesting assistance from countries without an inspector or
Recently, the ITF highlighted the news of a historic agreement for food delivery workers, and now the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) are building the pressure in France on food delivery company Deliveroo. This led to Deliveroo rider Jérémy Wick cycling 600 miles (960 km) to the company’s
The International Transport Workers’ Federation today join Ukrainian and Croatian maritime unions in demanding that the search for seven seafarers continue in the mid-Atlantic following the sinking of the Bourbon Rhode.
Weeks before Lufthansa is expected to sell its catering subsidiary, LSG Sky Chefs, the company continues to ignore its 11,000 workers in the United States.
Around 8,000 maritime workers in Nigeria will benefit from a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed by two unions. The Nigerian Merchant Officers and Water Transport Staff Association and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria signed the CBA with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and
The ITF civil aviation section has hailed the participation of experts from ITF unions at the 40th assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) as a great success. Twenty-five union experts, including young workers and women, from 14 countries participated in the proceedings of
Multinational corporations based in Europe have accelerated their foreign direct investment in the Southern states of the United States in the past quarter-century. Some companies honour workers’ freedom of association, respect workers’ organising rights and engage in good-faith collective
The five-week strike at Foodora in Norway is over with a first-ever collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between a global food delivery platform company and a trade union. On 27 September 2019, the Fellesforbundet union and the firm reached an agreement that includes an annual pay hike of EUR1500